Middle East Pundit

Both Ayatollah Khatami of Iran and now Hamas’ Ismail Haniyah have said the U.S.’s financial crisis is divine punishment from Allah.
My question to both of them naturally is this - then what does Iran’s and the Palestinian’s economic crisis stem from? Why is the former punishment from Allah and the latter not? […]

Everyone’s witnessed the spectacle that goes by the name Jimmy Carter these past few weeks. Perhaps in an attempt to redeem his very public and very disastrous track record in the Middle East during his brief tenure in office, Carter has decided to meet with Hamas and Syria, much to the protest of the […]

Iran has attacked the new movie 300 as a U.S. psychological conspiracy to make Iranian culture look bad.
The movie’s effort wound be fruitless, because “values in Iranian culture and the Islamic Revolution are too strongly seated to be damaged by such plans”, said the Iranin [sic] official.
If Iranian culture and the Islamic Revolution are “too […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini praised the Palestinians in their Mecca Agreement saying “the wise and resistant Palestinian nation knows pretty well that the main cause of tension and insecurity is the measures and approaches of the occupier enemy, the Zionist Regime of Israel.” (bold mine)
Now I know wise is a relative term. […]

Six years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini called the Crusades a “great, historic event,” and has sought to revive those traditions. You can find the entire transcript here.
For those of you who do not believe the West and Islamism are in a ‘clash of civiliations,’ could you let the Supreme Leader of Iran know, because […]